As part of the Microsoft Build event, we are announcing a developer preview of the Data Connector SDK. You can begin to create your own custom data connectors. What are data connectors? Simply put, they are how you connect to data within Power BI. These are extensions on the connectivity/Mashup engine that powers the “Get Data” experience in Power BI and Excel.

You may have seen some forum posts showing how to filter a report with a URL query string parameter. We also have this in the main documentation as well. It isn’t very widely known. So, I thought I’d do a blog post to highlight how to do it, and also give you a trick you can use to filter on multiple fields.

There have been a few support calls asking why the Drill Down feature is missing from report visualizations. This feature was moved to the explore menu from within a report, in both the reading and editing view.

I’ve been noticing a lot of discussion on the community site, in my emails, and in conversation from people having trouble connecting to Analysis Services through the Power BI Gateway – Enterprise. I thought it might help if I break down what actually happens, and what you need to configure to create a successful connection.

This post will look at two different approaches for expanding a record from a list using Power BI and a bit of M syntax. In our specific case, a customer wanted to pull data from a record that was listed in the table output of a SharePoint list.

You may be in a situation where you have disabled AllowAdHocSubscriptions for Azure Active Directory within your organization. This will prevent the ability for users to signup for Power BI. If your organization has this enabled, and no one has signed…

NOTE: This information is good as of 9/15/2015 and is subject to change! I get approached quite often regarding Azure Active Directory and how to get that working with Power BI. Here is an example of a question I received. I am investigating Power BI…